Robert J. Gamble

Robert Jackson Gamble (7 February 1851-22 September 1924) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-SD) from 4 March 1895 to 3 March 1897 (succeeding William V. Lucas and preceding Freeman T. Knowles) and from 4 March 1899 to 3 March 1901 (succeeding Knowles and preceding Eben W. Martin), and a US Senator from 4 March 1901 to 3 March 1913 (succeeding Richard F. Pettigrew and preceding Thomas Sterling).

Biography
Robert Jackson Gamble was born in Genesee County, New York in 1851, and he moved with his family to Fox Lake, Wisconsin in 1862. He became a lawyer in Milwaukee in 1875, and he moved to Yankton in the Dakota Territory to practice law. He became a Republican district attorney in 1880 and went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897 and from 1899 to 1901, and he then served in the US Senate from 1901 to 1913. In 1915, he became a lawyer in Sioux Falls, and he died in 1924.